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A few weeks ago, no one outside of sport had ever heard of a TUE. It had always been an

Sport has an innate power to move me, be it rugby, curling, triathlon or rowing. I live and breathe it.

In association with Virgin Money Giving the 100% not-for-profit fundraising website, The Mixed Zone has helped produce a series of

In the days after the Olympics ended there was a strange sense of quiet around the Olympic Park. There was

Audrey McIntosh is living proof that neither age nor gender should stand in the way of anyone wanting to participate

The XV Paralympic Games open in Rio today and run until September 18. In The Mixed Zone’s final article in

The Paralympic Games, as often happens, is embroiled in another controversy over classification of competitors’ disabilities ahead of Wednesday’s Opening

Our Olympic athletes may have just returned to a heroes’ welcome after a record-breaking Games, but they are now handing

For Britain’s most successful tennis player, Jordanne Whiley, it is gold or bust in Rio. She admits being a Paralympic

With so many outstanding and inspirational performances from Team GB, it is no surprise that The Mixed Zone’s August nominations

It isn’t a surprise to hear that women conquered the Olympics. In several Olympic teams, including Canada, the majority of

Eilidh Doyle came back from Rio with an Olympic medal in her luggage. Not in her specialist event, the 400

Famous tennis mum Judy Murray reveals what every parent of a sporting child goes through as they stand helplessly on

The Mixed Zone is committed to highlighting Team GB’s Olympic and Paralympic heroines who lit up Rio long after they

Team GB’s star-spangled Olympic athletes may no longer be on our television screens on a nightly basis, but that does

Helen Glover may be double Olympic champion, and the most successful female rower in the world, but when it comes

I’m about to land at Heathrow having slept for about three hours of the eleven-hour flight. I know I’ll suffer

Once an Olympian, always an Olympian. Gail Emms is so competitive in everything she does she doesn’t even let her

In the days of the original Greek Olympics, the victors would often be celebrated in marble statues still displayed in

Day thirteen of the Olympics has almost finished and I am meeting up with some school friends in the local